Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2510-1
24th February, 2015
freetype vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary
FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened
a specially crafted file.
Software description
- freetype
– FreeType 2 is a font engine library
Details
Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain
malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted
font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
libfreetype6
2.5.2-2ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libfreetype6
2.5.2-1ubuntu2.4
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
libfreetype6
2.4.8-1ubuntu2.2
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
-
libfreetype6
2.3.11-1ubuntu2.8
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.